Barely few months after submission
of ambassadorial nominee to the national assembly was greeted with much
criticism by some senators, who are calling for inclusiveness and pragmatism in
its selection process as a result of several petitions, to which has now been
resolved according to source in the national assembly who confided with urban
express news online.
The Senate is now resolved to begin
the screening of 46 non-career ambassadorial nominees for whom President
Muhammadu Buhari is seeking legislative approval today (Tuesday).
A notice by the Senate Committee on
Foreign Affairs, which would conduct the screening exercise, was sighted by our
correspondent on Monday.
The exercise is expected to be
coordinated by the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Monsurat Sunmonu; and the
Vice-Chairman, Senator Shehu Sani.
President of the Senate, Bukola
Saraki, on January 12, 2017, announced that Buhari had revised the list of the
nominees.
The Senate had on November 15,
2016, rejected the first version of the list after receiving over 250 petitions
against the nominees.
Due to the controversy in the
nominations, the lawmakers had resolved that the first list be sent back to
President Buhari “for resubmission and re-jigging.”
The Senate took the decision based
on the recommendation of its Committee on Foreign Affairs in its report.
Two of the nominees on the first
list – a former Deputy Governor of Plateau State, Mrs. Paulen Tallen; and a
former member of the House of Representatives, Usman Bugaje – who rejected
their nominations, were dropped from the second list.
Lagos, which had three slots in the
first list, now has two, with the removal of Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora from
the nominees.
A slot was also taken from Rivers
State, leaving it with one nominee.
The Federal Capital Territory and
Imo State, which had no representation in the first list, now have a nominee
each on the second list.
The amended list now has Dr. Uzoma
Ememke (Abia State), Dr. Clifford Zirra (replaced with Aminu Iyawo) (Adamawa),
Maj.-Gen. Godwin Umo (retd.) (Akwa Ibom), Christopher Okeke (Anambra), Yusuf
Tuggar (Bauchi), Baba Madugu (Bauchi), Brig.-Gen. Stanley Diriyai (Bayelsa),
Enyantu Ifenne (replaced with Steven Ugba) (Benue), Mohammed Hayatuddeen
(replaced with Baba Ahmad Jidda)(Borno) and Dr. Etubom Asuquo (Cross River).
Also on the list are Francis
Efeduma (Delta), Jonah Odo (Ebonyi), Uyagwe Igbe (Edo), Ayodele Ayodeji
(replaced with Eniola Ajayi) (Ekiti), Maj.-Gen. Chris Eze (retd.) (Enugu),
Suleiman Hassan (Gombe), Justice Sylvanus Nsofor (Imo), Amin Muhammad Dalhatu
(Jigawa), Muhammad Yaro (replaced with Ahmed Bamalli) (Kaduna), Deborah Iliya (Kaduna), Prof. D. Abdulkadir (Kano),
Haruna Ungogo (Kano), Justice lsa Dodo (Katsina), Dr. Usman Bugaje (replaced
with Mohammadu Barade) (Katsina), Tijjani Bande (Kebbi), Prof. Y. O. Aliu
(Kogi) and Nuruddeen Mohamed (Kwara).
Others are Mohamed Yisa (Kwara),
Justice George Oguntade (retd.) (Lagos), Senator Olorunimbe Mamora (slot
removed) (Lagos), Modupe Irele (Lagos), Musa Muhammad (Nasarawa), Ahmed Ibeto
(Niger), Ade Asekun (replaced with Suzanne Folarin) (Ogun), Sola Iji (replaced
with Jacob Daodu) (Ondo), Adegboyega Ogunwusi (replaced with Afolahan Adeyemi)
(Osun), Maj.-Gen. Ashimiyu Olaniyi (retd.) (Oyo), Pauline Tallen (replaced with
James Dimka) (Plateau) and Dr. Haruna Abdullahi (Plateau).
Orji Ngofa (Rivers), Justice
Sylvanus Nsofor (slot removed) (Rivers), Jamila Ahmadu-Suka (replaced with
Sahabi Gada) (Sokoto), Kabiru Umar (Sokoto), Mustapha Jaji (replaced with
Hassan Ardo) (Taraba), Goni Bura (Yobe), Garba Gajam (Zamfara) and Cpt. Abdullahi
Uba Garbasi (replaced with Cpt. Bala Mairiga) (Zamfara), were also nominated.
State governors, especially in the
ruling All Progressives Congress, had protested against their non-involvement
in the selection of the non-career ambassadorial nominees by Buhari.
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